Alberto del Rey

Catedrático de Universidad,  Departamento de Sociología y Comunicación. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Salamanca, España.

Director del Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales.
Miembro del Instituto de Iberoamérica, Universidad de Salamanca.
Miembro de la Unidad de Investigación Consolidada (UIC 177) de la Junta de Castilla y León. Miembro del GIR M²S  – “Mercado de Trabajo, Migración y Salud” de la USAL .
CV Producción científica USAL. Correo: adelrey@usal.es

PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN ACTUALES:

• “The Rise of Late Childbearing in Spain: Determinants and Consequences from a Life-Course Perspective” (LateChild), Reference:PID2025-169886NB-I00. Period: 2026-2030.

• “Urban imaginaries of the rural” (RURBANISE), Reference: PROOPI-851. Period: 2023-2027.

• “Análisis de la muy baja fecundidad a través de las transiciones vitales: emancipación, formación de pareja y trayectoria laboral” -LifeTransFertility- Reference: PID2021-123875NB-I00: Period: 2022-2026

• “SPANDAM -  Spanish Demographic Dynamics Assessment Model / Modelo de evaluación de la dinámica demográfica en España“, Reference: PLEC2021- 008041. Period: 2023-2026 Resumen.

• “RETOS DEMOGRÁFICOS“. Red Temática de Investigación en Demografía y Estudios de la Población. Referencia: RED2018-102841-T.

ÚLTIMAS PUBLICACIONES:

• Wu, M., del Rey, A., & Grande, R. “Partnership and Fertility Trajectories of Immigrant Women across the Migration Process to Spain: A Comparison by Country of Origin”. Population, Space and Place.  https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70375.  First published: 17 September 2026.  (Q1_JCR_Demography).

• Orfao, G., Carella, M., del Rey, A., Léger. J-F., & Gripsiou, A. (2026). “Population Turnover in the Mediterranean: A Regional Comparative Analysis of Migration and Natural Change”. Journal of Population Research, 43 (18).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-026-09425-1. Published online: 31 July 2026. (Q3_JCR_Demography).

• Vidal-Ruiz, R., Grande, R., & del Rey, A. (2026). “Desire, Intention, and Lifestyle Preferences: A Comparative Analysis of Partnered Individuals in Spain”. Comparative Population Studies, 51: 193-218. https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2025-10. Published online: 17 June 2026.  (Q2_JCR_Demography).

• Wu, M., del Rey, A., Orfao, G., & García-Gómez, J., (2026). “Persistent inequalities around early motherhood? A comparison of maternal employment trajectories of natives, immigrants and their descendants in Spain”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2026.2639747. (Q1_JCR_Ethnic Studies; Q1_JCR_Demography).

• Carella, M; del Rey, A.; Orfao, G.; Congedi, A.; Bonilla, L.; Ghio, D. (2026). Chapter 12. Residential mobility of older population: recent dynamics across Italian and Spanish municipalities. In Title: Spatial Analysis for Complex Territorial Systems. Editor(s): Luca Salvati. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780443441332. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-44133-2.00020-X.

• Orfao,G., Carella, M., del Rey, A., Gripsiou, A. (2026). “Migration and population change patterns: a comparison between Italian and Spanish regions”. Italian Journal of the Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies/Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica (RIEDS), LXXX-1: 15-26. https://doi.org/10.71014/sieds.v80i1.452.

• Orfao, G., Malo, M.Á., and  del Rey, A. (2026). “Unpaid overtime and non-standard employment among young people in Europe: do national context and institutions matter?”. Journal of Youth Studies, 29(1): 107-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2024.2419084. Published online: 30 October 2024. (Q1_JCR_Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary).

• Bonilla, L., del Rey, A. & Blanes, A. (2025). “Mapping Territorial Attractiveness in Spain: A Multidimensional Index for Depopulation Assessment”. Social Indicators Research, 180: 1815-1851. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03727-2. Published online: 13 October 2025. (Q1_JCR_Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary).

• del Rey, A., & Grande, R. (2025). “Entre la movilidad laboral y la familia: una vieja disyuntiva para las personas inmigrantes a su llegada a España”. Áreas. Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales, (48), 165–184. https://doi.org/10.6018/areas.630431. Published online: 4 Oct 2025. (Q4_JCR_Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary).

• del Rey, A., García-Gómez, J., Orfao, G., & Wu, M. (2025). “Transitions to Motherhood in a Low-Fertility Country: Timing, Type, and Order of Life Course Events”. Comparative Population Studies, 50: 153-182. https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2025-10. Published online: 8 Sept 2025. (Q2_JCR_Demography).

• Wu, Mengyao & del Rey, Alberto. (2025). Chapter 14. “Reconstruction of fatherhood in a strange land: Exploring fathering practices of Chinese migrants in Spain”. In Caring Fathers in the Global Context. Edited by Petteri Eerola, Katherine Twamley, Henna Pirskanen and Pedro Romero- Balsas. BUP-Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK.  (pp. 249-265). ISBN 9781447372448. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447372448.

• del Rey, A. (2025). Capítulo 10. “Cambio climático y su impacto demográfico”, En El Sahel: escenario de la crisis climática y migratoria. Una mirada interdisciplinar (pp. 206-209). Colección Academia Casa África.

• Wu, M., & del Rey Poveda, A. (2025). “Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-19”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(9): 2183-2202. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2455434. Published online: 23 Jan 2025. (Q1_JCR_Ethnic Studies; Q1_JCR_Demography).

• Wu, M.; & del Rey, A. (2025). “Ideals and realities: Chinese singleton daughters negotiating family size preferences and migrant motherhood in Spain”. Journal of Gender Studies, 34(2): 236-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2366976. Published online: 14 Jun 2024 (Q1_JCR_Women Studies; Q1_JCR Social Sciences Interdisciplinary).

• Orfao, G., García-Gómez, J., Del Rey, A., Parrado, E. (2025). “Has Immigration Contributed to Population Growth in Spain? A Regional Comparative Analysis”. In: Pollice, A., Mariani, P. (eds) Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography IV. SIS 2024. Italian Statistical Society Series on Advances in Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64447-4_58. First Online: 21 January 2025.

• Grande, R., del Rey, A. and Vidal-Ruiz, R. (2024). “¿Hijo o trabajo? Efectos de la paternidad en las trayectorias laborales de los migrantes durante el primer boom inmigratorio en España (1995-2007) ?”. REVISTA DE DEMOGRAFÍA HISTÓRICA – JOURNAL OF IBEROAMERICAN POPULATION STUDIES, XLII, I, 2024, PP. 51-76,  Published online: December 2024. (Q2_SJR_History)

• del Rey Poveda, A.; Stanek, M.; García-Gómez, J.; Orfao, G. (2024). “Patterns of over-education among highly educated mobile intra-EU workers, 2005-2016”. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 65(6): 782-808. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152241229400. Published online: 14 February 2024.  (Q1_SJR_Sociology; Q2_JCR_Sociology).

• Wu, M.; & del Rey, A. (2024). “Harsh choices: Chinese migrant families’childcare strategies in Spain”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(4): 936-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2159349. Published online: 21 Dec 2022 (Q1_JCR_Ethnic Studies; Q1_JCR_Demography).

• Orfao, G., del Rey, A., and Malo, M.Á. (2024). “Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states”. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(7): 961-985.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2187283. Published online: 06 Mar 2023. (Q1_JCR_Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary).

• Wu, M., & Del Rey, A. (2023). “The Regional Response to Venezuelan Migration: A Comparative Analysis of Governmental Measures in Colombia, Argentina, and Chile (2015-2019)”. Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios, 13(1), 25–56. https://doi.org/10.25115/riem.v13i1.4944 (Q4_JCR_Demography).

• del Rey, A. (2023). “Primera y segunda generación de migrantes latinoamericanos en la España actual”. Temas para el debate,  346: 31-33.

• García-Gómez, J.,  del Rey, A., & Stanek, M. (2023). “Fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Spain: intergenerational convergence to the native population’s behaviour?”. Migration Studies, 11 (4): 669-693. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad025. Published online: 15 September 2023. (Q1_JCR_Demography).

• García-Gómez, J., & del Rey Poveda, A. (2023). “La fecundidad completa de las inmigrantes latinoamericanas y sus descendientes en España“. América Latina Hoy, 93: 1-35. https://doi.org/10.14201/alh.30064. (Q1_SJR_Historia).

• Stanek, M., del Rey, A., García-Gómez, J., & Dello Iacono, C. (2023). “Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers”. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31 (2): 394-408. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2021.2001314. (Q1_JCR_Area Studies).

• del Rey, A., Stanek, M., and García-Gómez, J. (2023). “Long goodbyes: pathways of leaving home by gender and destination in Spain”. European Sociological Review, 39(6): 973-991. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac064. Published online: 9 December 2022 (Q1_JCR_Sociology).

• Grande, R., del Rey, A., and Stanek, M. (2022). “Efectos del desempleo femenino de larga duración en la fecundidad de las parejas españolas, 2005-2019”. Revista Internacional de Sociología, 80(1), e201. https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2022.80.1.20.121 (Q2_SJR_Sociology; Q4_JCR_Sociology).

• del Rey, A., Grande, R., and García-Gómez, J. (2022). “Transiciones a la maternidad a través de las generaciones. Factores causales del nacimiento del primer hijo en España”. Revista Española de Sociología, 31(2), a108. https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2022.108 (Q2_SJR_Sociology and Political Science).

• Carella, M., del Rey Poveda, A., & Zanasi , F. (2021). “Post-Migration Fertility in Southern Europe: Romanian and Moroccan women in Italy and Spain”. Migration Letters, 18(6): 745-760.  https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v18i6.1617. (Q2_SJR, Social Sciences-Demography).

• García-González, J-M., and del Rey, A. (2021). “Research on Individuals Aged One Hundred and Over: Protocol from the Sevilla and Castilla y León Centenarian Studies”. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211031125. (Q1_JCR_Social Sciences Interdisciplinary).

• Orfao, G., del Rey, A., and Malo, M.Á. (2021). “A multidimensional approach to precarious employment among young workers in EU28 countries”. Social Indicators Research, 158(3):1153-1178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02734-3. (Q1_SJR_Sociology and Political Science; Q2_JCR_Sociology).

• García-Gómez, J., Stanek, M., and del Rey, A. (2021). “New member state workers in Western European labour markets. Are they civically stratified?”. European Societies, 23(3): 360-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1817521. (Q1_JCR, Sociology).